“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” - George W. Bush

Friday, January 25, 2013

John Kerry, dry-mouthed, showing his lack of depth of integrity, squirming, nervously playing with his pen, getting his long skinny lying ass handed to him by Rand Paul.

Jan 24, 2013 6:50pm ABC NEWS

A Day After Attacking Clinton, Rand Paul Grills Kerry

Yesterday Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) told Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that if he were president, he would have fired her over her handling of the Benghazi crisis.

Today, in a confirmation hearing in which nearly every senator, Democrat and Republican, heaped glowing praise upon their colleague John Kerry (D., Mass.), who’s been nominated for secretary of state, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) posed contentious questions to Kerry about the U.S.’s role on the world stage. It quickly became apparent that the two senators not only had different political opinions, but different world views. Rand seems to see the world in absolutes; Kerry maintains intervention in world affairs be judged on a case-by-case basis.

Paul, who was publicly critical of President Obama’s authorizing U.S. action in Libya to help depose Mohamar Gadhafi, wanted to know Kerry’s take on a president’s authorizing military action without congressional approval. Kerry responded that, although he is a strong supporter of the War Powers Act, which requires the president to seek congressional authority to declare war, he also supports the right of a president to act in an emergency.

“I supported Ronald Reagan when he sent troops into Grenada. I supported George H.W. Bush when he sent troops into Panama. I supported President Clinton when, against the will of the Congress, he did what was needed to be done in Kosovo and Bosnia, so forth. And in this particular instance, I think the president behaved in that tradition,” said Kerry.

Paul suggested Kerry is cherry-picking the Constitution. He pointedly asked Kerry to defend his anti-war stance in the 1970s against Richard Nixon’s decision to bomb Cambodia, on the one hand, and President Obama’s actions in Libya on the other. Kerry responded that the circumstances of the conflicts were different: Vietnam had been waging for years without Congressional approval, unlike the situation in Libya.

Paul was unmoved.

“Length of time, but similar circumstances: a bombing campaign unauthorized by Congress,” he said. “See, the Constitution really doesn’t give this kind of latitude to sometimes go to war and sometimes not go to war.”

Kerry said he respected that position in theory, but in practice always requiring Congressional approval for every military action was not practical.

“You can be absolutist and apply it to every circumstance. The problem is, it just doesn’t work in some instances,” said Kerry. “When 10,000 people are about to be wiped out by a brutal dictator and you need to make a quick judgment about engagement, you certainly can’t rely on a Congress that has proven itself unwilling to move after weeks and months.”

The two men went on to spar over aid to Egypt, given Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi’s comments from 2010 that have recently been made public calling Israelis “blood suckers” and “descendants of apes and pigs.”

Kerry called the comments “reprehensible” but again pointed to the fact that Egypt remains a critical lynchpin for a peaceful Middle East. The senator also pointed to the ways Morsi’s administration has been helpful — supporting the peace agreement with Israel and working with the U.S. on security in the Sinai peninsula.

“This is always the complication in dealings in the international sector — not everything lends itself to a simple clarity, black/white, this/that every time,” said Kerry.

Paul also pressed Kerry on whether he would support cutting Pakistan’s aid if the country does not free Shakil Afridid, the Pakistani doctor serving 33 years in prison who was convicted of running a vaccine program in Abbottabad to help the U.S. obtain DNA from Osama bin Laden’s relatives. Paul said Dr. Afridi’s detention could act as a deterrent for future informants and that Pakistan, as an ally, should be cooperating.

Kerry again said that the relationship with Pakistan is complex, and pointed out the other ways the country has helped the U.S. in its war against terror.

“I intend to raise the issue of Dr. Afridi with them. I can promise you that,” said Kerry. “But I am not going to recommend, nor do I think it is wise, for American policy to just cut our assistance. We need to build our relationship with the Pakistanis, not diminish it. ”

Really, Rand Paul should defer to the genius, of Clinton & Clinton, Reagan, Bush and Bush, Carter & Kerry, Obama and Leon Panetta and continue to deliver the delicious fruit of US foreign policay and military intervention?

Which has been a bigger threat to the actual security of US citizens, all hostages to the Pirates of the Potomac, Iran getting a nuclear weapon for defense, or US politicians along with our good friends the Saudis having nurtured the creation of Al Qaeda?

Al Qaeda has actually killed 3000+ Americans and scored trillions in damages to the US; a direct result of US meddling in Afghan 1 and establishing miitary bases throughhout Arabia.

We are daily compounding the chances of creating avengers for the next attack on the US.

Bob thinks the problem is Rand Paul’s given name. Ron Paul who wants to prevent US citizens from getting killed is bad for America. Lincoln (aptly named after crazy Abraham) who actually got 600,00 Americans killed was a genius and worthy of adulation and deification.

Yes, yes, it is all our fault, come to think of it. It is all the result of giving those Stingers to the freedom fighters in Afghanistan, and helping them out.

Spain should give Andalusia back to the muzzies too. It angers them that they won't do that. The muzzies were there once. If they would just give it back, the muz wouldn't bomb the subways in Spain. And all would be well in the garden.

Every mullah should have nukes, it is only fair.

There should be nukes in Gaza. After all, Israel has them right across the border. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, and up in Lebanon too, they muz there needs nukes. It is only fair.

Yes, yes, it is all our fault, come to think of it. It is all the result of giving those Stingers to the freedom fighters in Afghanistan, and helping them out.

In Bob’s world the Mujahadeen taking down Russian airplanes loaded with Russian draftees are freedom fighters. The same crew taking down four US planes loaded with US civilians are terrorists, both crews products of the Mujahadeen, bought and paid forby guess who?

No. My thoughts and prayers were with the use in pairs of some of our otherwise useless tactical nuclear warheads. Two per training camp. You see, all is art. I wanted the world to see the iconic value in the photographs of two mushroom clouds per camp juxtaposed to the two towers coming down.

Further mental masturbation had the Saudi Ambassador reporting to share his deeply felt sympathies and being handed a bill for $500 billion, with a weekly vig of an additional B.

I did my little part to assist the contras fighting for their freedom against the thuggery of the community organizers in Nicaragua. We actually had an interest in what happened in Central America. It was a micro decision.

We had a good example of Potomac responsibility with Hillary taking full responsibility for the Benghazi fuck-up. The consequences didn’t even cost her lunch. None of them ever take responsibilty.

Just one remoresful suicide would be refreshing, wouldn’t you agree?

No, the only ones who do that are the chumps that fall for their flag waving, pay the price, and end their miserable post-military lives because they can no-longer stand the memory of the deeds done to them and by them for their rulers and masters, all who always take full responsibility and have them all in their thoughts and prayers don’t you know?

ah, c'mon Deuce, aren't you being a bit hard on the poor leaders? They are just doing what they think is right - being righteous dontcha know? Waging war, sending kids off to slaughter and be slaughtered, with their toned and morally upright leaders standing behind them, well behind them (a contintent away at least), taking full responsibility for their decisions what with being the righteous, morally upright, leaders that they are!

Sure, but your starry eyed 'America is so great and virtuous' portrayal of the Civil War being a fight where "one group of one race fought another group of the same race to free a group of another race from slavery?" is just utter revisionist bullshit - the stuff of kindergarten 'your homeland is moral and virtuous' history.

In fact 'slavery' didn't really exist. It was all a wonderful wonderful guided paternal relationship, like good father and thankful obedient son, and for the best for everyone, the height of human relationships up to that time.

If this doesn't damp down the enthusiasm here in some quarters for Rand Paul nothing will.

'an attack on Israel is an attack on the United States'

Maybe I can get to like the guy too. Though maybe Rand is just playing to 'the Jewish lobby'. They are heavy in Kentucky, centered around Lexington, where they all own fancy race horses, and spend time buying influence with the Kentucky Legislature. They are even out here in Idaho, all over Boise. You think the Mormons have influence? Think again. Behind the scenes it's all Jewish money. The Mormons are destitute compared.

i know, but I just wanted to piss in the wind against the EB establishment that the reason Israel has BI-partisan support aint money,

It's the correctness of the issue,

No other issue UNITED Americans as the support for Israel.

It's actually quite refreshing and amazing when you understand how many billions are spent to demonize Israel and how the cheerleaders against Israel control both the State dept and the Executive branches of our nation...

One thing I learned in Kentucky, talking with people out at the race track there in Lexington, is that there is a lot of Arab money around there. They are into buying those fancy horses, starting price, 50k, and the locals like the business, though not the Arabs. No one mentioned Jewish investors though.

After four years of pretending there is no jihad against the free world, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blurted out the truth during her testimony on the Benghazi jihad massacre Wednesday: “We now face a spreading jihadist threat,” she said, adding: “We have to recognize this is a global movement.”

"On Christmas day, as "a Christmas present to the world," Steven Greer, M.D., and his science advisor, Ted Loder, Ph.D., from the Orion Project, announced on the World Puja Network that the "top secret" inventor they've talked about over the past year has been released early from military seclusion, and has contracted with them to begin bringing various technologies he has developed (in some cases at taxpayer expense) to the world, beginning with a free energy technology in the tradition of Nikola Tesla."

Nevermind. Just read this> Greer said, "We're dealing with someone who has a track record of thirty years of building these technologies; and being under contract with top secret programs; and has actually built things to the level of things dematerializing, teleporting, and space-time alteration. We're talking really advanced stuff." Greer says that in the military secret ops, such projects are referred to as WSFM which stands for "Weird Science and Freakin' Magic."

You might not get my reference. She drank with us for awhile, and was of a sudden teleported out of here by the very same men in black, very rich men, very powerful, secretive men, she was always telling us about, that were going to leave us behind, and start the whole human enterprise elsewhere.

Bob told me once, that when the One broke into the Many, as it's doin' all the time, it done it Dionysian like, whatever that is, emotional he said, without a lot of thought, an' all possibilities was covered, an' there wasn't anything to be done about Ash, except put up with him, somebody had to sit in the dunce chair.

Then I asked him, what 'bout Quirk? He had to think a minute, then said, since we are spiritual bein's, and don't occupy space, 'cept in our understandings an' modes of perception, then more than one dunce can sit in the dunce chair at the same time, which don't exist.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made comments at a Pentagon press conference on Thursday that will undoubtedly be used by critics of the decision to open up combat roles to women.When a reporter mentioned that the Pentagon’s stance appeared to keep open the possibility that some occupational specialties would be off limits to females, Gen. Dempsey responded: “[I]f we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn’t make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, why is it that high? Does it really have to be that high?”

CNS News reports that the policy shift by the Defense Department could potentially open up 230,000 positions to female service members.

Washington D.C. now has the highest per capita income of anywhere in our fucked up country and three of the richest counties in the US surround it.

Best Maserati dealerships around, and, o, the fine wines.

http://www.maseratiofwashington.com/

And it is all Lincoln's fault -

http://www.nps.gov/linc/index.htm

The Great Emancipator

"In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever." Beneath these words, the 16th President of the United States-the Great Emancipator and preserver of the nation during the Civil War-sits immortalized in marble. As an enduring symbol of freedom, the Lincoln Memorial attracts anyone who seeks inspiration and hope.

Lincoln grew the government.

Yet D.C. also has the third highest income inequality in the US.

It's Versailles on borrowed money, a hall of mirrors, a nightmare, and the promise of destruction for all of us.

"In this temple, as in the hearts of the people for whom he saved the Union, the memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever." Beneath these words, the 16th President of the United States-the Great Emancipator and preserver of the nation during the Civil War-sits immortalized in marble. As an enduring symbol of freedom, the Lincoln Memorial attracts anyone who seeks inspiration and hope.

“Temple?" To human murder? The centralized government is worth the death of 600,000? ”As an enduring symbol of freedom, the Lincoln Memorial attracts anyone who seeks inspiration and hope.”

Freedom from suffering, death, destruction of property, statism, tyranny at the hands of a depraved killer?

Inspiration and hope?

Nothing like a vacuous unchallenged assertion, carved in stone, at the base of a gargantuan idol to a mass manipulator and killer, to cleanse the lie and inspire the minions.

(Reuters) - Visits to Hawaii soared to a record high last year, boosted by an increase in flights and a weaker dollar, tourism officials said on Thursday.

Almost 8 million people visited the Aloha State in 2012, more than a third of a million more than the previous record set in 2006 and a rise of 9.6 percent on 2011, the Hawaii Tourism Authority said.

The surge in visitors to the tropical islands - famed for their pounding surf and lush mountains - was matched by a record $14.3 billion in spending, according to preliminary statistics.

As well as being a top holiday destination for U.S. visitors, the islands are also a popular spot for Japanese tourists who accounted for nearly 1.5 million of the state's visitors in 2012 - a 17 percent rise.

Magnificent Ronald and the Founding Fathers of al Qaeda

“These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America’s founding fathers.” — Ronald Reagan while introducing the Mujahideen leaders to media on the White house lawns (1985). During Reagan’s 8 years in power, the CIA secretly sent billions of dollars of military aid to the mujahedeen in Afghanistan in a US-supported jihad against the Soviet Union. We repeated the insanity with ISIS against Syria.